Media: Mixed Media
Size: 8 x 8
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Media: Mixed Media
Size: 16 x 20
When I was a teenager, I played the violin at school. I used to
dream of running barefoot in the woods playing favorite tunes, the way
daydreaming kids do. Of course, in the end I never did, but it would have
been nice, so I just tried to imagine it in this collage.
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Media: Mixed Media
Size: 16 x 20
Once I went on a hunt for ancestors, traveling from the US to Scotland, across to Kyle of Lochalsh, across on the ferry and over the island of Skye, and out on a 3 ½ hour ferry to the Isles of Harris and Lewis in the outer Hebrides. Up in the extreme north-west of Lewis I found a ring of standing stones called Callanish. The place was magical to me, eerie, lonely, sea pounding nearby, desolate treeless hills, and then these wonderful tall, slender stones weathered and gaunt. This is the effect I have tried to portray in my collage, the wavy lines depicting water and swirling list in and out of the stones.
Media: Mixed Media
Size: 16 x 20We lived for three years in the south of France, in Provence. The lavender fields stretch away as far as the eye can see in some areas – mostly the more isolated places, nearer the Provencal alps. If you stand near the edge of the fields, you can hear the busy hum of bees in the summer sun. The local people sell lavender honey which is a real treat.
Size: 16 x 20
When Spring time comes around again I feel the magic of plants, trees and flowers pushing up, stretching and reaching for the sun. I tried to imagine being a young girl again, sitting on a rock in the sun and being a part of the wonderful energy and rebirth of Spring, hearing the splash
of a stream, the call of a bird and experiencing the soft feel of petals under my fingers.
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Media: Mixed Media
Size: 8 x 10
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Media: Oil Painting
Size: 26 x 16
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Media: Oil Painting
Size: 9 x 6
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Media: Mixed Media
Size: 16 x 20
Sold to Private Collection
Media: Mixed Media
Size: 16 x 20
Sold to Private Collection
Media: Mixed Media
Size: 16 x 20
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Media: Oil Painting
Size: 14 x18
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Media: Mixed Media
Size: 14 x 18
When I was working on this collage I remembered my younger daughter, who is now an artist and a dreamer, dancing and singing to herself as I worked in my tulip bed. She has red hair and so I tried to capture the red of her hair and the red and orange of the tulips too.
Donated to the Mount Vernon Arts Commission
Media: Oil/Acrylic Painting
Size: 14 x 18
I find it so sad that Dragonflies have such a short life. Because of that, it is important to me to capture their beauty while I can. Here in the Pacific North West the dragonflies are big and the garden is full of them swooping and souring out of the woods and across the lawns in bright flashes of color all summer long. They are attracted by the water in the nearby lake. There is a poem by Ashton Mill and a verse from it describes what I try to paint:
“The sun and wind combine to make
A million diamonds on my lake,
Ripple-flash echoes on my mill
My dragonflies are brighter still.”
Media: Collage
Size: l6 x 20
How do you capture an image of the wind? Here I have used the pale, cool colors, the easy spring of the uncomplicated figure, and the blowing of the light textured cloths to show the teasing power of the wind passing through the picture. I was attempting to portray the carefree, light feeling I remembered as a young girl whenever the wind blew.
Size: l6 x 20